When they did away with the conference champion requirement, they opened up the door to the SEC favoritism being alive and well. Hopefully the committee will be comprised of lots of conference heads without weight given to any one conference.

I think this will be good for college football. I also love the moving championship game. I think seeing championship games in great stadiums would be amazing. Instead of just having warm climate games we could see a championship played out in Michigan in January.

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I've really soured on college athletics the past year, especially college football. This is unfortunate to me, because college football is near the tops of my favorite sports.

The recent conference realignments and the Bowl System/BCS/playoff merryground has made me realize that not only is it not about the student-athletes (which I can accept), it is also NOT about finding out which team is the best.

It's about cold hard cash baby. And believe me, there are some pockets getting seriously lined.

I will always be a die-hard Michigan State fan. But I don't think I'll ever care as much as I used too. And that's doubly hard to say now that the Spartans are a consisent force in Big 10 football.

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I wonder if Penn State will end up getting the death penalty after the damning Freeh report was released today? It's certainly going to get really ugly, really soon now. Paterno's reputation is destroyed, all to protect the institution. I wonder whether anyone will learn the lesson?

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I wonder if Penn State will end up getting the death penalty after the damning Freeh report was released today? It's certainly going to get really ugly, really soon now. Paterno's reputation is destroyed, all to protect the institution. I wonder whether anyone will learn the lesson?

I think that Penn State is going to be a wake up call to all programs. Unfortunately, Joe wasn't as clean or honest as everyone thought. His family is trying to do damage control, but in the end, he probably shouldn't be the icon he was held up to be...

My hope is that this will make programs become cleaner. Just as I hoped for Ohio State when they were caught red handed trying to hide stupid things. College football is about money. They have very little accountability, and at this point have very little to do with the institutions they are associated with. Hopefully schools will become more serious about their oversight instead of just wanting a successful team that might get their name out there and bring in tv revenue.

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I wonder if Penn State will end up getting the death penalty after the damning Freeh report was released today?

From the NCAA? Doubtful - what happened really doesn't fit their definition of "lack of institutional control". Could the Board of Trustees shut down the program in the best interest of the University? Possibly, but I hope not for the sake of the kids currently on the team. I'd just like to see them put into place (and actually follow) very strict guidelines on how to deal with employee misconduct, and fire anyone that's still on the payroll who had any knowledge of what went on with Sandusky.

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From the NCAA? Doubtful - what happened really doesn't fit their definition of "lack of institutional control". Could the Board of Trustees shut down the program in the best interest of the University? Possibly, but I hope not for the sake of the kids currently on the team. I'd just like to see them put into place (and actually follow) very strict guidelines on how to deal with employee misconduct, and fire anyone that's still on the payroll who had any knowledge of what went on with Sandusky.

To be fair, the "lack of institutional control" reasoning has been applied pretty selectively in recent years. So I don't think it would be out of the realm of possibility to conclude, in this case, that there was a lack of institutional control. Although maybe it was more of a case of the nefarious use of institutional control to cover-up allegations of very serious crimes by one of their own at Penn State.

I'm in the camp that the NCAA has to do something. Ohio St. gets hit with a one-year bowl ban because Jim Tressel lied about some tattoos and nothing happens at Penn St. when they cover-up the crimes of a sexual predator?

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Not the "death penalty", but the NCAA pretty much crushed the Penn State football program:

$60 Million fine with the money to going to charity.
4 year postseason ban
15 per year scholarships for 4 years (a loss of 10 per year)
Any current players can transfer and play instantly.
All wins vacated from 1998-2011
5 years probation

The Big TenElevenTwelve has also indicated that PSU's share of bowl revenue over the next four years will go to charity.

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I found you a new motto from a sign hanging on their wall…"Drink coffee: do stupid things faster and with more energy"

Not the "death penalty", but the NCAA pretty much crushed the Penn State football program:

$60 Million fine with the money to going to charity.
4 year postseason ban
15 per year scholarships for 4 years (a loss of 10 per year)
Any current players can transfer and play instantly.
All wins vacated from 1998-2011
5 years probation

The Big TenElevenTwelve has also indicated that PSU's share of bowl revenue over the next four years will go to charity.

It is the death penalty in everything but name. Kudos though to the NCAA in letting the players transfer without penalty. Although school is about to begin so if the transfer now they will be a year behind and probably will not have a scholarship until next year anyway.

Personally, I was hoping for the death penalty. The football program covered up a child rapist and it appears than most of the staff either knew or had a good idea what was occuring. What has to happen for the NCAA to actually invoke the death penalty?

SMU got it for being a repeat violator (major violations while still on probation), but Morehouse College (D-II here in Atlanta) had their men's soccer team shut down for a couple of seasons for a first major violation (knowingly using former professional players, including in some games before they even enrolled).

What PSU received today may well be worse than a one-year shutdown would have been...

I found you a new motto from a sign hanging on their wall…"Drink coffee: do stupid things faster and with more energy"